The origin of my Packard line in the United States is Massachusetts, the Plymouth Colony, the town of Hingham. Samuel Packard brought his wife Elizabeth and their infant daughter Mary there in 1638. Not long after, they went to Weymouth, and even later to Bridgewater.
The next subsequent two generations pretty well stayed put. Eleazer, Samuel's great-grandson, went west. Though Richards Packard, Eleazer's son, grew up there in western Massachusetts, he was born in Bridgewater.
The American Revolution turned things upside down. Richards, at 17, enlisted in a Massachusetts regiment and ended up serving two enlistments in two different regiments. After the Revolution, he began a fairly long migration north. He settled first in Winchester, New Hampshire, where he met and married Sarah "Sally" Coates. I do not have much information on her as yet. In Winchester, Richards worked in a foundry.
His feet feeling the need to wander once again, he and Sally took up their anchor and headed north. They ended up in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where their son John Allen Packard, my 3x-great grandfather, was born. It wasn't long after when Richards and Sally sold their farm in Vermont and headed north again, this time ending up in Canada. They settled in Stanstead, in Quebec, in an area known as the English Townships. This was their final migration.
This was also where John Allen Packard grew up, and married. He married Miriam Bullock, and together they had a pack of children. John Allen was a Methodist preacher. One of their children, Mathew Hale Packard, also grew up in the English Townships, and married Emily Hoyt.
Mathew Hale and about half of his siblings ended up going back into the United States around 1850. Mathew and his wife, and their son Oscar Merry, born probably in Hamilton, Ontario in 1848, ended up in Chautauqua County, New York, across Lake Erie where they were enumerated in the 1855 New York State Census in Harmony Township. They also had a daughter, Augusta, born in New York, probably in Harmony Township, Chautauqua County. Members of Emily Hoyt's family had settled there, and the Packards had followed.
It was from here the Mathew enlisted in a New York regiment of cavalry for the Civil War. He served in two different regiments. As with most who fought on either side in that war, Mathew suffered more from ailments than from war wounds.
After the war, Mathew and his family migrated to Bloomington, Illinois, where a number of his siblings had settled. This is where Mathew, by occupation a carpenter, and Emily, a milliner, lived the rest of their lives.
Their son, Oscar Merry, became a real estate agent. He married Augusta Hetherington, born in Chicago in 1851. They had four children: Herbert Roy Packard, Ruby Packard, Walter Hetherington Packard, and Hale Boring Packard. Once he became established in real estate, Oscar packed up his family and migrated to the best place for real estate agents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- California.
It was in California that Walter Hetherington Packard grew up, and where he met and married Elizabeth Jane "Bessie" (later "Betty") Reynolds, who was born in Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa. They, like Walter's parents, had four children: Walter Reynolds ("Ren"), John Creighton ("Jack"), Arden (no middle name), and Sarah Virginia ("Sally").
This long enough tale ends here, for the story of Arden and his migrations can be found in my blog entry On the Move: A is for Arden.
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A to Z Challenge On the Move: B is for Bicoastal
My father's family line in America began with Samuel Packard, born around 1610 in Stonham Asphal, Suffolk, England. He became a separatist and left England for the Plymouth Colony in 1638. With him were his wife Elizabeth and their infant daughter Mary. Elizabeth's maiden surname has never been discovered.
Samuel and his family settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts, then removed to Weymouth and finally ended up in Bridgewater. As towns were organized in those colonial days, it all revolved around the church. There was a squabble in Samuel's church, and one part of the congregation broke away and renamed their part of the town North Bridgewater, which today is known as Brockton. Samuel was a farmer, and he also kept a tavern, known as an ordinary, in his home. This was a common colonial practice, and not just in the English colonies, but also in the Spanish colonies in Florida, as my studies of one of those colonies, St. Augustine, Florida, have revealed.
Samuel was also at one time or another the Keeper of Minister's Rates (tax collector) and Surveyor of Highways. He was obviously literate and worked well with numbers.
Descendants of Samuel, through several generations, scattered to the four winds. My fourth great-grandfather, Samuel's great-grandson Richards, served in the American Revolution and afterwards, went north in search of land. He went up into New Hampshire, where he met and married Sarah ("Sally") Coates. They continued their migration up into Vermont, where my third great-grandfather, John Allen Packard, was born. And apparently Richards was not satisfied with the land he tried to farm in Vermont, and he heard that the Canadians were giving away land and were not being particular about who they were giving it to. He eventually settled near Georgeville, Quebec, in an area known as the English Townships, because so many Anglophones settled there. My great-great grandfather Mathew Hale Packard was born there.*
Mathew Hale Packard married Emily Hoyt in Canada. Their son Oscar Merry Packard, my great-grandfather, was most likely, by everthing I have found so far, born in Hamilton, Ontario. His happy-sounding middle name came from the Merry family, close friends of the Packards in Georgeville. Mathew and Emily also later had a daughter, Sarah Augusta. This family migrated from Canada to Chautauqua County, New York, after the Civil War, in which Mathew served from two different regiments of New York cavalry.
Another migration was in store for this family, as they ended up in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, with a few of Mathew's brothers and sisters, and their families. It was in Bloomington that Mathew Hale Packard died.
His son, Oscar Merry, continued the peripatetic Packard tradition, and after becoming a real estate agent, took that career to the perfect place for it at the perfect time -- southern California in the early 20th century. Before leaving Illinois, however, he married Agusta Hetherington. They had several children, among them my grandfather Walter Hetherington Packard.
It was in California that my grandfather met and married my grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Reynolds. Their children were Walter Reynolds Packard, Arden Packard, Sarah Packard, and John Creighton Packard.
In my previous post, A is for Arden, the story is told of my father's migrations, which went from California to Maryland to Virginia to Florida, and back to California. We have been a very bicoastal family.
*Be it noted that, yes, my fourth great-grandfather's name was Richards, with the s. His mother's maiden name was Mercy Richards, and that is probably where his name came from. And my great-great grandfather Mathew Hale Packard had only one t in his first name.
Samuel and his family settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts, then removed to Weymouth and finally ended up in Bridgewater. As towns were organized in those colonial days, it all revolved around the church. There was a squabble in Samuel's church, and one part of the congregation broke away and renamed their part of the town North Bridgewater, which today is known as Brockton. Samuel was a farmer, and he also kept a tavern, known as an ordinary, in his home. This was a common colonial practice, and not just in the English colonies, but also in the Spanish colonies in Florida, as my studies of one of those colonies, St. Augustine, Florida, have revealed.
Samuel was also at one time or another the Keeper of Minister's Rates (tax collector) and Surveyor of Highways. He was obviously literate and worked well with numbers.
Descendants of Samuel, through several generations, scattered to the four winds. My fourth great-grandfather, Samuel's great-grandson Richards, served in the American Revolution and afterwards, went north in search of land. He went up into New Hampshire, where he met and married Sarah ("Sally") Coates. They continued their migration up into Vermont, where my third great-grandfather, John Allen Packard, was born. And apparently Richards was not satisfied with the land he tried to farm in Vermont, and he heard that the Canadians were giving away land and were not being particular about who they were giving it to. He eventually settled near Georgeville, Quebec, in an area known as the English Townships, because so many Anglophones settled there. My great-great grandfather Mathew Hale Packard was born there.*
Mathew Hale Packard married Emily Hoyt in Canada. Their son Oscar Merry Packard, my great-grandfather, was most likely, by everthing I have found so far, born in Hamilton, Ontario. His happy-sounding middle name came from the Merry family, close friends of the Packards in Georgeville. Mathew and Emily also later had a daughter, Sarah Augusta. This family migrated from Canada to Chautauqua County, New York, after the Civil War, in which Mathew served from two different regiments of New York cavalry.
Another migration was in store for this family, as they ended up in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, with a few of Mathew's brothers and sisters, and their families. It was in Bloomington that Mathew Hale Packard died.
His son, Oscar Merry, continued the peripatetic Packard tradition, and after becoming a real estate agent, took that career to the perfect place for it at the perfect time -- southern California in the early 20th century. Before leaving Illinois, however, he married Agusta Hetherington. They had several children, among them my grandfather Walter Hetherington Packard.
It was in California that my grandfather met and married my grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Reynolds. Their children were Walter Reynolds Packard, Arden Packard, Sarah Packard, and John Creighton Packard.
In my previous post, A is for Arden, the story is told of my father's migrations, which went from California to Maryland to Virginia to Florida, and back to California. We have been a very bicoastal family.
*Be it noted that, yes, my fourth great-grandfather's name was Richards, with the s. His mother's maiden name was Mercy Richards, and that is probably where his name came from. And my great-great grandfather Mathew Hale Packard had only one t in his first name.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Six Degrees of Separation
One thing that will probably help me blog through a busy April, when I do have time, will be the blogging memes that appear in various places, such as Genea-musing's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, from Randy Seaver. Tonight's task:
1) Find an ancestral line that atretches back to the time of the US Revolutionary War (1775-1783), about 230 years. Define your person-to-person connection (the person actually met the next person on the list) back to a historical figure from that time.
2) Tell us about it on your blog, in a note or comment on Facebook, or in a comment on this post.
My father was Arden Packard (1911-1954). He died when I was seven years old, but I do remember him.
His father was Walter Hetherington Packard (1879-1937) is shown along with his wife, Elizabeth Jane Reynolds (1879-1939) in a photograph with my father in about 1930 0r 1931.
Walter H. Packard's father was Oscar Merry Packard (ca. 1848-ca. 1930) who is enumerated in the 1930 U.S. census living with Walter H. Packard's family.
Oscar Packard's father was Matthew Hale Packard (1822-1881), with whom Oscar is enumerated in the 1850 U.S. Census and the 1855 New York census living in Chautauqua County, New York.
Matthew Packard's father was John Allen Packard, shown in Canadian records with his family, including Matthew, in Stanstead County, Quebec, Canada.
John Packard's father was Richards Packard, who served in a Massachusetts regiment, and whose cousin, though the line of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, was John Adams.
Though I cannot be absolutely sure that Richards Packard ever met his cousin John face-to-face, it is possible. And there was some familial resemblance -- both men were short in stature!
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1) Find an ancestral line that atretches back to the time of the US Revolutionary War (1775-1783), about 230 years. Define your person-to-person connection (the person actually met the next person on the list) back to a historical figure from that time.
2) Tell us about it on your blog, in a note or comment on Facebook, or in a comment on this post.
My father was Arden Packard (1911-1954). He died when I was seven years old, but I do remember him.
His father was Walter Hetherington Packard (1879-1937) is shown along with his wife, Elizabeth Jane Reynolds (1879-1939) in a photograph with my father in about 1930 0r 1931.
Walter H. Packard's father was Oscar Merry Packard (ca. 1848-ca. 1930) who is enumerated in the 1930 U.S. census living with Walter H. Packard's family.
Oscar Packard's father was Matthew Hale Packard (1822-1881), with whom Oscar is enumerated in the 1850 U.S. Census and the 1855 New York census living in Chautauqua County, New York.
Matthew Packard's father was John Allen Packard, shown in Canadian records with his family, including Matthew, in Stanstead County, Quebec, Canada.
John Packard's father was Richards Packard, who served in a Massachusetts regiment, and whose cousin, though the line of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, was John Adams.
Though I cannot be absolutely sure that Richards Packard ever met his cousin John face-to-face, it is possible. And there was some familial resemblance -- both men were short in stature!
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